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  • Abstract Number: 1182 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Fluorescence Optical Imaging in the Diagnosis of Individuals Suspected of Arthritis Development – a Probabilistic Approach

    Yogan Kisten1, Adrian Levitsky 1, Hamed Rezaei 1, Aase Hensvold 2, Per Larsson 3, Erik af Klint 1, Ronald van Vollenhoven 4 and Anca Catrina 5, 1Rheumatology unit Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, 2Rheumatology unit Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, 3Center for Rheumatology, Academic Specialist Center, Stockholm Health Services, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden, 4Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, Netherlands., Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5Rheumatology unit Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden

    Background/Purpose: Among the arsenal of available techniques for arthritis prediction and diagnosis, fluorescence optical imaging (FOI) has shown to be useful in detecting clinically manifest…
  • Abstract Number: 2658 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting

    Giant Cell Arteritis Diagnostic Workup Among Medicare Beneficiaries

    Alicia Rodriguez-Pla1, Lili Zhou 2, Erin Ashbeck 3 and C. Kent Kwoh 4, 1University of Arizona/Banner Health Medical Center, Tucson, AZ, 2The University of Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Tucson, AZ, 3The University of Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tuccson, AZ, Tucson, AL, 4University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

    Background/Purpose: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) has traditionally been diagnosed by a combination of symptoms, clinical findings, laboratory results, and temporal artery biopsy. More recently, imaging…
  • Abstract Number: L15 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    The Diagnostic Accuracy of PET/CT Scan of the Head, Neck and Thorax Compared with Temporal Artery Biopsy in Patients Newly Suspected of Having GCA

    Anthony Sammel1, Edward Hsiao2, Geoffrey Schembri3, Katherine Nguyen4, Janice Brewer4, Leslie Schrieber5, Beatrice Janssen4, Peter Youssef6, Clare Fraser7, Elizabeth Bailey8, Dale Bailey8, Paul Roach8 and Rodger Laurent4, 1Rheumatology, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia, 2Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia, 3Nuclear Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia, 4Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia, 5Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 6Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, Australia, 7Save Sight Institute, Sydney, Australia, 8Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

    Background/Purpose: The diagnostic accuracy of PET/CT against temporal artery biopsy (TAB) in patients suspected of having GCA has not been well studied. PET/CT has traditionally…
  • Abstract Number: 438 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    What Characterizes Osteoarthritis: Ultrasound-Detected Inflammation but Not Osteophytes Is More Common in Hand Osteoarthritis Than in Painless Bony Enlargements

    Nina Gasperi1, Antonella Adinolfi2, Arnd Kleyer3, Melanie Hagen3, Christiane Gasperi4, Martin Weger5, Stefan Kiechl6, Johann Willeit6, Georg Schett3, Annamaria Iagnocco7, Arno Gasperi8, Agnes Mayr9 and Christian Dejaco10,11, 1Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, Graz, Austria, 2Department of Medicine, surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy, Siena, Italy, 3Department of Internal Medicine 3—Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, Erlangen, Germany, 4Department of Neurology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Munich, Germany, 5Department of Internal Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, 6Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Austria, 7Academic Rhematology Center, University of Torino, Turin, Italy, Turin, Italy, 8Department of Neurology, Bruneck Hospital, Bruneck, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, 9Department of Laboratory Medicine, Bruneck Hospital, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, 10Rheumatology Service, South tyrolean Health trust, Hospital of Bruneck, Bruneck, Italy, Bruneck, Italy, 11Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria, Graz, Austria

    Background/Purpose: To study structural and inflammatory ultrasound lesions in elderly subjects with hand osteoarthritis (HOA) as well as in pain-free subjects with bony enlargements of…
  • Abstract Number: 792 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Evaluation of Esophageal Dysmotility in Systemic Sclerosis: Clinical VALUE of Computed Tomography

    Cristina Sobrino1, Cristina Pijoan-Moratalla1, Nicolás Almeida-Arostegui2, Luis Gorospe-Sarasúa2 and Carlos de la Puente-Bujidos1, 1Rheumatology Unit. Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, 2Radiology Unit. Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain

    Background/Purpose: Esophageal dysmotility is common in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), affecting 50-80% of patients, usually associated with poor prognosis. SSc leads to atrophy and fibrosis of…
  • Abstract Number: 1202 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Tenosynovial Aspiration By Ultrasound Guidance: Even Small Volumes Can Have a Big Impact

    Fawad Aslam1, Amy C. Cannella2, Veronika Sharp3, Lily Kao4, Jon Arnason5, Jemima Albayda6, Catherine Bakewell7, Shruti B Sanghvi8, Robert Fairchild9, Karina Torralba10, Amy M. Evangelisto11, Paul DeMarco12 and Eugene Y. Kissin13, 1Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, 2Section of Rheumatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, 3Rheumatology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA, 4Evergreen Medical Group, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA, 5University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, WI, 6Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 7Rheumatology, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, 8Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, 9Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 10Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, 11Arthritis, Rheumatic and Back Disease Associates, Moorestown, NJ, 12Arthritis & Rheumatism Associates PC, Wheaton, MD, 13Rheumatology, Boston University, Boston, MA

    Background/Purpose: Rheumatologists commonly use synovial fluid analysis to help establish a diagnosis in patients with joint effusions. Although tenosynovial (TS) effusions are common in rheumatic…
  • Abstract Number: 1448 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Clinical Impact of Articular Ultrasound in Diagnosis and Follow-up of Patients with Polyarthritis

    Justine Lafleur-Careau1, François Taschereau1, Artur J de Brum-Fernandes2, Alessandra Bruns3, Gilles Boire4 and Ariel Masetto5, 1Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 2Rheumatology Division, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 3Rhumatologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 4Rheumatology Division, Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke and Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 5Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS), Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, AB, Canada

    Background/Purpose: It is well established in the literature that musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) is more sensitive than clinical examination in the detection of synovitis. MSUS can…
  • Abstract Number: 1913 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Management of Ventricular Tachycardia and Cardiomyopathy in the Rheumatologist World: A Retrospective Review of Diagnostic Tools and Treatment Decisions for Cardiac Sarcoidosis

    Saba Ziaee1, Siri Kunchakarra2, Cara Joyce3, Mark Rabbat4 and Rochella A. Ostrowski5, 1Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 2Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 3Clinical Research Office, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 4Division of Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, 5Division of Rheumatology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL

    Background/Purpose: Cardiac sarcoidosis has been noted in 2-7% of patients with sarcoidosis.  However, the incidence is >20% based on necropsy data.  Given the poor yield…
  • Abstract Number: 2211 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Technetium Tc 99m Tilmanocept: A Targeted Immunodiagnostic Radiopharmaceutical for the Assessment of Synovial Macrophage Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Arash Kardan1, Allison Kissling2, Bonnie Abbruzzese2, Ahmad Ismail2, Rachael Hershey2, Carley Hartings2, David Ralph2, Izabela Gierach2, Michael Blue2, Hannah Bailey2, Christopher Gablemann2, Katherine Repp2 and Frederick Cope2, 1Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital and Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, OH, 2Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Dublin, OH

    Background/Purpose: Activated macrophages are a critical component of the inflammatory etiology of RA. It is well established that these macrophages perpetuate joint inflammation and destruction…
  • Abstract Number: 2905 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Ultrasound Diagnosis of Large Vessel Inflammation in New-Onset Treatment-Naïve GCA Patients Using Fluorine-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT As the Reference Standard – a Prospective Study of 86 Patients Suspected of GCA

    Berit Dalsgaard Nielsen1, Ib Tønder Hansen2, Kresten Krarup Keller3, Philip Therkildsen4, Lars Christian Gormsen5 and Ellen-Margrethe Hauge6, 1Clnical Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Århus N, Denmark, 2Clinical Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Århus N, Denmark, 3Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, 4Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark, 5Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, Aarhus University Hospital, Århus C, Denmark, 6Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus, Denmark

    Background/Purpose: EULAR recommendations suggest diagnostic imaging in all GCA suspects. Vascular ultrasound (US) is cheap, readily available and the recommended first line examination in cranial…
  • Abstract Number: 12L • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Evaluation of Intravenous Injection of Tc 99m Tilmanocept in Static Planar Gamma Emission Imaging and Fused SPECT/CT Imaging for Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Arash Kardan1, Bonnie Abbruzzese2, James Sanders2, Allison Kissling2, David Ralph2, Joanna Shuping2, Michael Blue2, Carley Hartings2, Rachael Hershey2, Ahmad Ismail2, Izabela Gierach2, Hannah Bailey2, Amelia Spaulding2, Matthew Haynam2, George Zubal3 and Frederick Cope2, 1Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital and Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton, ND, 2Navidea Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Dublin, OH, 3Z-Concepts, LLC, East Haven, CT

    Background/Purpose: Activated macrophages play a critical role in RA by perpetuating inflammation via TNFα release and participating in the destruction of bone and cartilage. Notably,…
  • Abstract Number: 2023 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Diagnostic Value of the Non-Observation of the Frontal Branch of the Temporal Arteries By Ultrasonography in the Diagnostic of Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA)

    Natacha Cambray1 and Artur J de Brum-Fernandes2, 1Rheumatology Division, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, 2Rheumatology Division, Université de Sherbrooke, Rheumatology Division, Canada, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

    Background/Purpose: The absence of the parietal branch of the temporal artery during an ultrasound evaluation may be due to a variance of the normal anatomy…
  • Abstract Number: 244 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Rheumatoid Arthritis Imaging on PET-CT Using a Novel Folate Receptor Ligand for Macrophage Targeting

    Nicki Verweij1, Stefan Bruijnen1, Yoony Gent2, Marc Huisman3, Gerrit Jansen2, Carla Molthoff4, Qingshou Chen5, Philip Low5, Albert Windhorst3, Adriaan Lammertsma3, Otto Hoekstra3, Alexandre Voskuyl2 and Conny van der Laken2, 1Dept. of Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center - location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2Department of Rheumatology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center - location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center - location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 5Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, West Lafayette, IN

    Background/Purpose: PET imaging with macrophage tracers has been shown promising for detection of (sub)clinical synovitis, making it useful for both early diagnostics and therapy monitoring…
  • Abstract Number: 258 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Prevalence of Echocardiographic Findings in Connective Tissue Diseases – a Retrospective Cohort Study

    Valentin S. Schäfer1, Katharina Weiss2, Andreas Krause2 and Wolfgang A. Schmidt3, 1Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Center for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, 2Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 3Medical Center for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Berlin-Buch, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Background/Purpose: Echocardiography is frequently performed in patients with connective tissue diseases (CTD), mostly to evaluate cardiac involvement or development of pulmonary arterial hypertension (paH). Despite…
  • Abstract Number: 261 • 2017 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

    Ultrasound CUT-Off in GIANT CELL Arteritis a Solution to Arteriosclerosis Pitfall in the Halo Sign

    Eugenio De Miguel1, Luis M Beltran2, Irene Monjo2, Francesco Deodati2, Wolfgang A. Schmidt3 and Juan García-Puig2, 1Rheumatology, University Hospital La Paz, IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain, 2Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario La Paz, MADRID, Spain, 3Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Med Ctr for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany

    Background/Purpose: At the age of Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) atherosclerosis is common. The ultrasonographic (US) appearance of athermanous plaque is usually easily differentiated from the…
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